Led Zeppelin – Untitled (IV) (Vinyl)
Encompassing heavy metal, folk, pure rock & roll, and blues, Led Zeppelin's Untitled (aka IV) fourth album is a monolithic record, defining not only Led Zeppelin but the sound and style of '70s hard rock. Expanding on the breakthroughs of III, Zeppelin fuse their majestic hard rock with a mystical, rural English folk that gives the record an epic scope. Even at its most basic -- the muscular, traditionalist "Rock and Roll" -- the album has a grand sense of drama, which is only deepened by Robert Plant's burgeoning obsession with mythology, religion, and the occult.
Plant's mysticism comes to a head on the eerie folk ballad "The Battle of Evermore," a mandolin-driven song with haunting vocals from Sandy Denny, who also sings on the epic "Stairway to Heaven,". "Going to California" is the group's best folk song, and the rockers are endlessly inventive, whether it's the complex, multi-layered "Black Dog," the pounding hippie satire "Misty Mountain Hop," or the funky riffs of "Four Sticks."
But the closer, "When the Levee Breaks," is debatably the highlight, and oddly prophetic looking at the predominance of flooding in our time of climate change. An apocalyptic slice of urban blues, "When the Levee Breaks" is as forceful and frightening as Zeppelin ever got, and its seismic rhythms and layered dynamics illustrate why none of their imitators could ever equal them. (AMG)
Vinyl, Reissue, Remastered, Gatefold, 180 gram
Tracklist:
A1 Black Dog
A2 Rock And Roll
A3 The Battle Of Evermore
A4 Stairway To Heaven
B1 Misty Mountain Hop
B2 Four Sticks
B3 Going To California
B4 When The Levee Breaks
Encompassing heavy metal, folk, pure rock & roll, and blues, Led Zeppelin's Untitled (aka IV) fourth album is a monolithic record, defining not only Led Zeppelin but the sound and style of '70s hard rock. Expanding on the breakthroughs of III, Zeppelin fuse their majestic hard rock with a mystical, rural English folk that gives the record an epic scope. Even at its most basic -- the muscular, traditionalist "Rock and Roll" -- the album has a grand sense of drama, which is only deepened by Robert Plant's burgeoning obsession with mythology, religion, and the occult.
Plant's mysticism comes to a head on the eerie folk ballad "The Battle of Evermore," a mandolin-driven song with haunting vocals from Sandy Denny, who also sings on the epic "Stairway to Heaven,". "Going to California" is the group's best folk song, and the rockers are endlessly inventive, whether it's the complex, multi-layered "Black Dog," the pounding hippie satire "Misty Mountain Hop," or the funky riffs of "Four Sticks."
But the closer, "When the Levee Breaks," is debatably the highlight, and oddly prophetic looking at the predominance of flooding in our time of climate change. An apocalyptic slice of urban blues, "When the Levee Breaks" is as forceful and frightening as Zeppelin ever got, and its seismic rhythms and layered dynamics illustrate why none of their imitators could ever equal them. (AMG)
Vinyl, Reissue, Remastered, Gatefold, 180 gram
Tracklist:
A1 Black Dog
A2 Rock And Roll
A3 The Battle Of Evermore
A4 Stairway To Heaven
B1 Misty Mountain Hop
B2 Four Sticks
B3 Going To California
B4 When The Levee Breaks
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